Erick and Rich chat about the coronavirus pandemic's effect on hardware sales, surveying your clients about when they'll return to the office (if ever), and the recent spike in people who say they're locked down at home with a ghost.

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Formerly known as HTG Peer Groups, the organization has grown to some 500 members around the globe by helping channel pros set goals and hold each other accountable for realizing them, according to founder Arlin Sorensen (pictured).
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A companion to the vendor’s Channel Harmony program, which assigns primary sales responsibilities to RingCentral employees, the new IGNITE! program lets partners pursue and close deals involving up to 400 seats on their own.
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The two new offerings use Dell EMC hardware and VMware software to help organizations virtualize, pool, and dynamically allocate otherwise underutilized and disaggregated GPU and high-performance computing resources.
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The new USG FLEX line, Zyxel says, provides up to 125% of the system performance and 500% of the security performance of earlier USG models. Management of the new products via the vendor’s Nebula Cloud Networking Solution is due later this year.
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Introduced in response to spiking demand for remote management capabilities among businesses with work-from-home employees, the new package offers a subset of relevant features from Pulseway’s core managed services suite at a lower price.
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90-day loan flooring and no-cost subscriptions to remote management tools are key parts of a wider effort by the power quality vendor to help partners conserve cash and support customers despite distancing laws, according to channel exec Curtiz Gangi (pictured).
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Management of Carbonite backup software through Webroot’s admin portal will precede deeper “cyber resilience” integration between products from the two vendors, which became part of OpenText last year, according to CTO Hal Lonas (pictured).
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Founder Victor Raessen (pictured) developed the free platform specifically for MSPs and resellers to help them track and manage their product stack, network with peers, and make it easier for customers to find them.
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In a virtual keynote yesterday and interview on the ChannelPro Weekly podcast, Kaseya CEO Fred Voccola (pictured) outlined how MSPs with the right tools will be poised for growth when the economy begins recovering.
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